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<p><b>Peanut butter</b> is a food paste made primarily from ground <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_roasting" title="Dry roasting">dry roasted</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut" title="Peanut">peanuts</a>, popular in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">Netherlands</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. It is mainly used as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich">sandwich</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_(food)" title="Spread (food)">spread</a>, sometimes in combination as in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_and_jelly_sandwich">peanut butter and jelly sandwich</a>. The United States<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> and China are leading exporters of peanut butter. Other nuts are used as the basis for similar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_butter" title="Nut butter">nut butters</a>.</p>
<p>January 24 is National Peanut Butter Day in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
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